I'm not a fan of Matrix after reading this:

https://wiki.404.city/en/XMPP_vs_Matrix

No, not listed there.

Nice, looks like it's worth a review.

Matrix is worth a look for sure.

But definitely check out Briar. https://briarproject.org/

Android only..

Briar is a powerful messaging tool with a brilliant design that runs over Tor only. Development is slow but ongoing and active. Briar is totally metadata resistant.

Currently Briar lacks the ability to make calls, transfer files etc so it is not feature rich. But all these things are under development.

But for basic totally secure messaging Briar is the Champ. Contact sharing is by mutual agreement and does not use address books, phone numbers etc so Briar is totally anonymous and of course fully encrypted.

Do check it it.

Out of curiosity, is the group/organization in question listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Organized_crime_groups_in_Brazil

I'll check it out, thanks.

The Matrix federated network offers E2E encryption and has plenty of pre made extensions/bots (open sourced) so you can link other networking services to Matrix.

Well archive.is is down so, sorry. Stuck with the cancerous gizmodo site for now.

Can always take it a step further and block them at the network level, for all devices connecting to said network. https://pi-hole.net

Doesn't require much to run, definitely don't need the latest Raspberry Pi or anything. Plus you get fancy charts and graphs to see just how much bullshit is actually being blocked from accessing your network.

The notion that Facebook can make a public campaign against your phone being allowed to check with you before handing out information about what you're doing ... it's mind-boggling. But Apple is no defender of privacy itself, no matter what their marketing: https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/ And eventually, once enough people realize that ... they'll stop trying to pretend, even with things like fighting Facebook.

Trump got the UAE to recognize Israel ... what could possibly go wrong?

What do I trust even less than Kazakhstan's government demanding residents use their key escrow? The oligarchy of internet control telling people which key escrow they have to use instead!

Mozilla gets basically all their money from Google, which is humping a competing browser. ( https://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2020/11/firefox-was-always-enough.html ) So when Massa calls, they better come.

This not being recent doesn't make it any less interesting. Thanks for sharing.

The most troublesome thing is that it's impossible for competitors to emerge in the browser market. So everyone is more or less fucked on that front.

Yeah it's a few months old but I had just learned about this so figured I'd share.

though I'm not sure what all they'd share

If you haven't actually done anything to merit them investigating you (e.g. federal crimes, applying for a job with them requiring a background check) then not much. They certainly have access to a lot of data about you, but if they haven't slapped it in a report and filed it somewhere then it's not getting released under the FOIA. I only really bothered filing one for myself in the first place because I knew for sure there'd be something there.

I've got a few opinions on the matter:

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No real issues. I've had to whitelist a few items early on, and I don't specifically recall what they were. But I've added much more to the blacklist than I've ever had to manually whitelist.

I just like that it works network wide, so it doesn't matter if I'm on my phone, desktop, laptop, etc. If you got a pi laying around (or a spare $25 to buy one), I'd say go for it. Makes for a good first RPI project if you've not messed with them that much.

Mine is pretty much set-and-forget now. I login occasionally to check for updates and that's it.

No but I've been meaning to. Seems simple enough. Have you had issues with yours?

Imagine the backlash if any facial recognition technology targeted and flagged minorities in other nations?

An archived record of the technology shows it can perform such tasks as "glasses inspection", "smile detection", whether the subject is "ethnic" and, specifically, "Is it Uighur".

Consequently, if a Uighur livestreams a video on a website signed up to Cloud Shield, the software can detect that the user is Uighur and flag the video for review or removal, IPVM researcher Charles Rollet told Reuters.

IPVM said mention of Uighurs in the software disappeared near the time it published its report, and that Alibaba told it the feature has only been used "in a testing environment". Alibaba did not provide a comment following a Reuters' request.

Also, relevant (comedy): https://invidious.tube/watch?v=XyXNmiTIupg

No surprise there.

Nice contribution, thanks for sharing.

If anyone is interested there are also some apps that help with deleting little internet footprints such as

Jumbo Privacy, you can switch privacy settings, delete posts, comments on applications like Google based apps, facebook, instagram, and linkedin all from the jumbo app, and they make it really simple.

Exodus Privacy, notifies which trackers are embedded in apps installed on your phone aswell as letting you know which permissions are required.

Using the same email can be a security risk, as emails are sold online and can be found by scammers for spam mail, often if said email is attached with a phone number you will also get telemarketers. Be sure to minimise your online presence by obscuring, I personally use many emails for many different applications, for shopping, for social media if any, for work, for friends, etc. This can be tiring using many emails and many passwords, so a password/account manager is optimal, I reccomend Bitwarden, they store logins in an encrypted AES-256 vault that syncs across all of your devices as well as a password manager.

I love bitwarden.

Nice work, man!

I wish it was my work, I copied it from reddit. See the first line of the post for credit to the original author.